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Heinz Heise is a German publishing house. It was created in Hanover in 1949 as an address
and telephone directory publisher, then
later expanded to include magazines and loose leaf collections. In
2001, the company was divided into separate enterprises, all of
which came under the umbrella of their parent company, the
Heise Media Group. Their turnover was in year 2008 at
108,7 million euro.
Heise publishes the magazines c't (the computer magazine with the highest
number of subscribers in Europe), iX (focusing on topics for IT
professionals), the German edition of Technology
Review and the online magazine Telepolis. These publications feed into
the Heise News Ticker, which ranks among the most
successful German language news portals which
includes a frequented user forum.
The company also owns Heise Online
(heise.de), which As of December 2009 is a top 1000
website in the world, and a top 50 site in Germany according to Alexa traffic rankings.[1] In July
2006 heise Security was
launched in the UK[2]— mostly
featuring translated news from the German site, but also locally
relevant stories, the UK version of heise online came in February 2008. In February
2009, the UK site was renamed to The H, and located at
h-online.com.[3] In June
2007, a Polish heise online was launched.
Links from the Heise
site can cause a massive increase in web traffic to the referenced sites and can
cause some to become temporarily unavailable. While in the
English-speaking world this is known as the Slashdot
effect, among German speakers this is referred to as the
Heise effect (in German: geheist, as one would say
being slashdotted), or arguably inappropriately,
Heise-DDoS.
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